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Editorial Opinion
Daily Open Houses
Seventeen off-campus fraternities held open houses
Sunday afternoon, entertaining hundreds of freshmen.
One fraternity held an open house early Sunday
morning, but its visitors were not interested in possible
pledgeship.
Instead they made off with a boxioad of the fraternity
residents personal belongings.
Fraternity members welcomed Sunday afternoon's
guests with every cordiality.
This year's nearly half-dozen fraternity burglaries
and the frequency with which such incidents have oc
curred during the last several years seems to indicate
that fraternities also have the welcome mat out for
thieves.
Many fraternity members are in the habit of going
to bed leaving out in plain sight their wallets, Jewelry and
other personal items of value.
But not only personal items are involved. A good
many pieces of fraternity furnishings have disappeared
in past burglaries.
There is no question but that most fraternities have
enough items worth enough money to attract thieves. And
it has become obvious that a burglar can enter a fraternity
and walk off with a pile of loot without disturbing fra
ternity members—and without being disturbed himself.
Fraternities apparently have not learned front ex
perience. Ii may be difficult to find a. way to keep out
burglars during the night while allowing free entrance
and exit to members, but this should not be too big a task
for fraternities—or even the Interfraternity Council.
Open houses are fine things for the fraternity system.
But not all night every night.
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Letters
More Students Write on Nittany
TO THE EDITOR: After reading
the editorials and articles in your
recent publications, I cannot
help but feel anything but dis
gust for the authors of these ar
ticles. What do they know of the
situation at Nittany? Do they
live here? I would like to en
lighten their warped minds as
to the true situation of the Nit
tany area.
In the first place, until the
T-shirt ban was brought up, only
a few men would go to eat in
T-shirts. After the ban on T
shirts was made, this gave stu
dents the incentive to go in
T-shirts to meals, so they wore
them just to spite the ruling.
If decent dining quarters and
meals w ere provided, there
would be no rebellion to the
idea of dressing in sport shirts
and sport jackets to eat. Would
you wear a tuxedo to a record
hop? A person with all his senses
wouldn't. So, why dress up to
eat in the "Nittany dining hole."
I, a resident of Nittany Hall,
invite The Daily Collegian staff
to inspect our dining facilities
and the dress of the diners.
—Dave Wolff, '62
Letter cut
TO THE EDITOR: Walk into the
Nittany dining hall any night of
the week. Take a look around
you and count the T-shirts. They
are, by far, in the minority. If
our crusading cub reporters
would open their eyes, rather
than sitting in their offices try
ing to win Pulitzer Prizes, they
might learn quite a bit. It is ob
vious to us that when the last
editorial was written the true
views of the average Nittany
man were not taken into con
sideration.
It is true that we voted down
the referendum, but we did not
vote down good taste. Contrary
to the Collegian's opinion, we of
Nittany are not simply a group
of animals who refuse to wear
clothes. The primary objection
to the dress rules was the feel
ing of mis-representation on the
part of the dormitory represen
tatives. The men of the area
felt that they should have been
consulted before such definite
action was ' taken on the part
of the council. This feeling
alone motivated many people to
vote "no".
In reference to the statement
of one of the coeds on the data
bility of Nittany men: There
seems to be an ample repre
sentation of Nittany men to be
seen on campus with coeds at
any time.
—Howard Ferrer, Steve How
ard, John Elish, David Kelley,
Al Rosenberg, Stu Broth, Bernie
Goldsmith, Weston Brown, Har
ry Saxer, Larry Dodds, Walter
Potteiger, Norm Burkey, Andy
Kasarda, Kenny Slagle. Frank
Callon, Gary Glenn, Clarence
Yeagley, James M. Cameroto,
Bob Rhwenger, Charles E. My-
Saiezi ers, Fred Twilla.
•Letter cut
TO THE EDITOR: I wislno state
that I voted that the motion be
upheld, but just because the
motion was defeated is no rea
son to call the men of Nittany
a bunch of "slobs."
Don't forget s it isn't our fault
we live in this area and there
isn't a thing we can do about
it. We, the residents of Nittany,
are just as good as ,any other
college student—male or female.
If an inspection of the dining
hall would be made by the au
thor of the (editorial) in Thurs
day's Collegian, he would see
that the conditions do not call
for a suit or spoil coat on Sun
days. This is our home and why
shouldn't we dress as we would
at home.
The T-shirt and sweatshirt
condition, however, is another
matter. Most of the fellows are
not too fond of them being worn
in the dining hall, but the mo
tion gave us a choice of (rules
on both issues) or none.
The coeds wh,o called us slobs
and said we could not get dates
are very wrong . . .
—Earl E. Bridge, '62
•Letter cut
TO THE EDITOR: Ostensibly
all the downtrodden "gentle
men" of Nittany dormitories find
deep pleasure in voicing their
defiance to the organized world
in their recent referendum vic
tory.
Although they are apparently
always being ignored, and it is
only human that they should
react bitterly to the decrees
,of
the Powers, it seems to me that
they demonstrated very poor
judgment in bringing forth this
university-degrading d i s p 1 a y.
The story was teletyped over
the country to let the world
know what is happening at the
"illustrious" Penn State.
Now they have voiced them
selves and the whole embar
rassed university is reminded
that they exist; embarrassed not
because they exercised their
newly-found referendum prerog
ative, but because they hap
pened to choose a very indis
criminate. time for a demonstra
tion.
—Ralph H. Fertig. '62
TO THE EDITOR: The Colle
gian's statements were made be
cause Nittany residents do not
wish to be obligated to wear a
jacket to Sunday dinner.
It is a rare occasion to see
more than 10 people in the din
ing hall wearing T-shirts. How
ever, we will assume as you
seem to, that nearly every Nit
tany resident wears a T-shirt to
each meal. Is it out of good
taste? Is it reason for disgrace?
Both of these are merely a mat
ter of opinion. Albert Einstein
spent much time walking
around in dirty clothes and
sneakers; however, he was re
spected world-wide.
Nittany residents make no
wish to be compared with Ein
stein, nor do they wish to be a
disgrace to the University by
dressing as "slobs." On the oth
er hand, they have no intention
'of dressing up unless there is
occasion to do so.
I am positive that if Nittany
residents were to eat with coeds
as is planned, or even if there
was a respectable dining hall to
eat in, the vot in g would be
nearly unanimous—only in the
other direction.
—Thomas Farr, '62
*Letter cut
TO THE EDITOR: I would like
to present an objective analysis
of the "Slob" issue. On one dish
of the balance is the civil rights
and, ill-representation argument
and the other dish contains the
argument of "claim to decorum."
The argument of civil rights
stems from the Nittany men.
The issue is not solely against
T-shirts, which too many peo
ple are inclined to believe, but
one of freedom of expression.
The typical male freshman
has just been "let out from
under the parental apron
strings." The natural inclination
of a person in this state of mind
is freedom of expression, whe
ther it be in thought, action or
dress.
The Nittany men don't direct
ly object to "no T shirts." On
the contrary, if a ruling were
passed that only T shirts were
to be worn in the dining hall
the Nittany men would obiect
there also. They believe that
they have paid for their meals
and their dress should not pre
vent them from receiving what
they have rightfully paid for.
On the other hand, these men
should dress in a manner con
genial to college living. The
freedom attitude these men
have has not molded itself with
society and decorum. Give these
men time. They will blend their
freedom with society and decor
um. Only give them time.
The second argument is that
of ill-representation in the coun
cil. The Nittany men must real
ize that each dorm elects a man
they think can do the best for
that dorm. The elected officer
goes to Nittany Council and
voes according to what he thinks
is best for his group.
"The claim to correct decor
um" side of the issue, obviously
is one of conformity. I will not
say the "claim of correct decor
um" is heavier on the balance
than- the "civil rights claim," be•
cause this is something each in-
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 18. 1958
T-Shirt Issue
dividual must decide for him•
self.
The argument put forth in
The Daily Collegian and by peo
ple agreeing with it was illus
trated very clearly in the edi
torial of Thursday, Nov. 13: "The
opponents of the ban could not
seem to understand that a regu
lation which is passed to raise
the standards of a community
and preserve some claim to dec
orum is not necessarily an in
fringement of rights." This ar
gument can't be any clearer.
—Ron Hendrickson, '62
®Leiter cut
TO THE EDITOR: It seems to
me that b e f ore people make
rash judgments concerning the
T-shirt situation in the Nittany
area, they ought to understand
the logical reasoning which
prompted us to vote down the
referendum. The main objective
of the dress rule "that no T
shirts are to be worn to the
meals and a suit or snort jacket
should be worn to the Sunday
noon meal" was, as was stated,
to improve the character and
actions of the Nittany residents
in the dining hall.
In the first place, how is the
dress of a person going to make
a maturely acting individual out
of one that is essentially a so
called "slob?" If an individual
is a "slob" in a T-shirt, then
he is still a "slob" in a sport
shirt or a suit jacket. His dress
is of little importance.
Secondly, I don't think the
men would have gone against
this rule if it had been handled
in a different manner. If instead
of posting the referendum on
the bulletin board without con
sulting any of the residents, the
Nittany Council had formed a
committee to talk to the men
about this rule, it probably
would have met with slight re
sistance.
I don't think the men are so
called "slobs." It is only through
the efforts of a few that the bad
manners are displayed in the
dining hall, so why label every
one living in the area "slob."
Let the blame fall where it is
justified!
—William B. Barrick, '6O
0 Letter cut
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